I starting off calling these 'Postcards', but am now thinking of them as 'Living Landscapes'. A bit like a photo, but if you look closely, things are moving! This one shows the boats moving along the River Thurne and River Bure, where they meet at Thurne.
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All This Was Fields
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I am a friendly Norfolk based composer and videographer, inspired by landscapes and nature.
I specialise in acoustic and electronic soundtracks, field recordings, nature and wildlife footage.
Please feel free to contact me at jkwatty[at]me[dot]com if you would like to discuss any bespoke music or footage.
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After a tiny fox cub stumbled out in front of me in early May, I spent many mornings and evenings going back to the location to film them. It's not the easiest place to film as it's very hard to approach the den without being spotted. However, I found if I didn't move, they would accept me being there and carry on with their lives as a family. Here's the highlights of the footage during May...
- Jul 25
Updated: Aug 2
A new track... the video has aerial views of the area where I live, so I though Hjem (Danish for home) would be a nice title, in a nod to the Danish visitors Norfolk saw quite a lot of over a thousand years ago.
I found an interesting language link... Anglo-Saxon for home is 'ham' but there is an old English term for home, used occasionally in Norfolk, which is Hyem... I think this may be the origin of 'Potter Heigham' as Home to Pottery... and the Danish being Hjem. You can see the link between the 3 words, each from a different culture.
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